cross-platform virus

[John]

Tommy Trussell wrote:

> It's called popularity-contest -- unfortunately the Debian package
> requires a functioning mail system (that could send the appropriate
> messages to the outside world) and I never wanted to set that up for a
> desktop machine. I believe one of the enhancement requests at one time
> was to upgrade it to send its data via another transport, such as
> http. Oh I see that bug was addressed in Warty (Bug 8323 in
> launchpad.net)
> 


It could use smtp directly, it's not hard. Simply calling netcat with 
the right input and commandline will do:-)